| 摘要 |
The invention describes methods and apparatus to structure the air link resources, e.g. traffic channels, into segments of different transmission segment types (516) and effectively use that novel structure. Different segment types (516) are structured to achieve different performance characteristics. The segments (516) may be aligned with different offsetting start times chosen to minimize the variation in the maximum number of segments (516) starting at any given time slot (530-542). This staggering of segment start times minimizes waste in unused assignment messages due to structural inefficiencies, and has an overall effect of balancing the traffic. Information collected on the channel quality that various user's are experiencing may be used to classify the users. Stored information on different segment types (516), each with different benefits, is used in the allocation process to effectively match classified users to well-suited segment types to increase performance, balance the system, conserve power, and satisfy the users. |
